- Idolator Comments

fudgester — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:40:17 EST

Wierdly, as (not gay) british man, I can tell you that hardly anyone uses the word faggot over here, it's pretty much an americanism.

fudgester

fairportfan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:07:53 EST

"I doubt that the BBC would take the same relaxed attitude if this song included the n-word, or abusive language like 'Paki' or 'yid'."

Find a song (aside from, perhaps, the Pogues' own "Sickbed of Cuchuillain" as mentioned in the comment above) with those words in it that's been freely played by the BBC for right at twenty years without being censored, and they very well might...

fairportfan

dana danger — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:15:00 EST

Listening to the BBC World Service on NPR today, I heard them read a letter from a gay British man who said, "Call me any names you like, just don't call me late for dinner." I nearly crashed my car in the realization that SOME PEOPLE REALLY TALK LIKE THAT. I need to move to London.

dana danger

Ned Raggett — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:01:26 EST

@nonce: Speaking as a card-carrying faggot

Always wondered what the cards look like, can you provide a scan?

Ned Raggett

nonce — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:54:32 EST

Yeah, but: context? Speaking as a card-carrying faggot, I'd rather err on the side of free, drunken, toothless expression, unless the subtitle of the song is "I'm Going to Punch You in the Neck, Faggot" or something.

nonce

Jack Fear — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:54:21 EST

Odd, the examples they choose of "abusive language": the only song I can think of that includes either "Paki" or "yid" is... well, it's another Pogues song, is what it is- "The Sickbed of Cúchulaínn," which actually includes both of them.

If Shane had managed to work in the n-word, he'd have hit the trifecta.

Jack Fear